conscriptadj.n.
/ˈkɒnskrɪpt/, U.S. /ˈkɑnˌskrɪpt/ A. adj.† 2. Inscribed in common or identically. Obsolete. rare.
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a. Enrolled or elected as a member of the ancient Roman senate. In later use also occasionally: enrolled or elected as a member of the Venetian senate. Usually in conscript fathers, †fathers conscript (also with capital initials) [after classical Latin patres conscrīptī, properly patres, conscrīptī, i.e. patres et conscrīptī fathers and elect; compare Middle French peres conscrips (mid 14th cent.)] : (a title of respect for) Roman or Venetian senators collectively. Cf. father n. 5a. historical.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [noun] > member of > collectively
conscript fathers1445
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > in ancient world > in ancient Rome > member of > collectively
conscript fathers1770
1445 tr. Claudian's De Consulatu Stilichonis in Anglia (1905) 28 281 (MED) The volume of Rome which conscript fadris shewith.
1481 tr. Cicero De Senectute (Caxton) sig. a4v Afore the day of his deth, whan he departed oute of the senate, he was conduyted and accompanyed home with the faders conscript [L. a patribus conscriptis,].
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) xi. f. 136 He sayd these wordes, O fathers conscripte, O happy people.
1605 B. Jonson Sejanus iii. i. 28 Fathers conscript may this our present meeting Turne faire, and fortunate to the common wealth. View more context for this quotation
1647 H. Neville Parl. of Ladies (Wing N512A) sig. B4 These Parliamenters..rapping at the doore where the Conscript Fathers were then in Councell.
1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives I. 58 At first..they were called Fathers only; but afterwards, when more were enrolled in their body, Conscript Fathers.
1780 C. Anstey Speculation 31 Like the Conscript Sires..Grave senators in Council deep Their amicable Vigils keep.
1817 G. Young Observ. Hist., Polit., & Metaphysical Questions iii. 90 The election of the 100 conscript senators admitted on the expulsion of Tarquin.
1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) v. i. 143 Say, conscript fathers, shall she be admitted?
1860 tr. in W. C. Hazlitt Hist. Venetian Republic IV. xxii. 56 Many resolutions have been proposed, Conscript Fathers, which, being of a contradictory kind, breed confusion, and tend to mislead our judgment.
1932 Classical Jrnl. 28 168 If the conscript fathers had little confidence in the men in office, they might prefer to let things take their course.
1970 R. E. A. Palmer Archaic Community Romans 268 The conscript pedarii entered the senate which had previously comprised Fathers and patrician adlecti drawn from the equestrian ranks.
2011 Classical Antiq. 30 48 We may imagine how little the conscript fathers enjoyed being addressed by their emperor as ‘the fortunate Commodian senate’.
b. In extended use. Enrolled or elected as a member of any legislative or administrative body. Formerly also: †of, relating to, or formed of such elected members (obsolete). Usually (later only) in allusive use of conscript fathers (see sense A. 1a). Now rare.
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1603 T. Powell Welch Bayte to Spare Prouender sig. Dv The present ruines of Maiestie, detaining yet the Pieres conscript in the spectacle, had giuen the speaking message of her death the first statte, and preoccupation of eares.
1606 J. Ford Fames Memoriall sig. G3 Dye thoughtes of soring maiestyes elate Dye inclination to conscript condition Dye pride of Empyre sou'raignetyes commission.
?1645 J. Taylor Most Learned & Eloquent Speech 1 Out of..the Nobility of this Conscript Senate [sc. the House of Commons], the Mutability of their Censures,..I have..adventured to unbosome and disburthen my minde before these unmatchable Patriots.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xxxiii. 12 The conscript Fathers of the Colony disagree in many Points..yet they all agree in oppressing Strangers.
1751 T. Warton New-Market 10 Britain, thy Conscript Counsellors behold; (For some perhaps, by fortune favour'd yet, May gain a burrough, by a lucky bet.)
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes vi. 335 Eliot, Hampden, Pym, nay Ludlow, Hutcheson, Vane..political Conscript Fathers.
1880 B. Disraeli Endymion I. xxx. 273 Hainault House had been raised by a British peer..the locality was no longer sufficiently refined for a conscript father.
1948 Cambr. Hist. Jrnl. 9 174 He formally received the available Senators in their full regalia (together with a number of other persons hastily dressed up by Talleyrand in borrowed uniforms and disguised as Senators to make the Conscript Fathers look more numerous and imposing).
1988 Times 15 Apr. 16/6 Feeling strongly that the nation's Conscript Fathers ought to set the example in this laudable economy measure, he had fifty muskrats shipped to the Capitol kitchens.
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1679 T. Harby Key Sacred Script. ii. 44 That 144000 in chap. 7. sealed, were not this 144000 in chap. 14. conscript, or having the Name of God written in their Fore-heads.
3. Forced to enlist in the armed services; recruited by conscription. Also: formed by or based on conscription. Cf. conscripted adj.Some examples may be regarded as appositive or attributive uses of the noun (see sense B.).
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society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > [adjective] > relating to compulsory enlistment > compelled to enlist
compelled1541
impressed1608
conscribed1654
pressed1705
lotted1758
conscript1804
conscripted1807
press-ganged1882
1804 Times 31 July 3 He has been this day forced to draw from his conscript army of reserve, a battalion of bell-ringers.
1823 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War I. 499 Three conscript lads..of the sixty-sixth regiment.
1881 Times Apr. 11/4 An enlisting army must always be more difficult to keep up than a conscript army.
1882 Good Words 23 318 With the assistance of conscript negroes brought down the Nile.
1943 D. Friend Gunner's Diary 39 Chocos..shouldn't be allowed into the canteen, the conscript rats.
1978 L. Heren Growing up on The Times iv. 136 British conscript soldiers were expected to keep the enemy at bay in Malaya.
2007 C. A. Watson U.S. Mil. Service iii. 66 Eighteen is the age for voluntary or conscript service in the Revolutionary Army or paramilitaries.
B. n.
A person who is forced to enlist in the armed services; a recruit obtained by conscription.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > conscript
levy1611
pressman1638
forced man1748
lotman1758
conscript1798
draftee1866
draft1916
chocolate soldier1939
choco1940
selectee1940
G.I.1943
national serviceman1949
1798 Oracle & Daily Advertiser 12 Dec. 3/3 The last Proclamation of the Municipality having produced only six conscripts, it has just issued another more threatening.
1801 Monthly Rev. 35 367 The extreme repugnance shewn by the conscripts to fill up the void..afforded grounds for believing, that the success of the Allies would be rapidly improved.
1814 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) XI. 589 The conscripts desert in all directions.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. ix. 318 Were these captives dealt with as conscripts or galley-slaves?
1917 Starke County (Knox, Indiana) Republican 26 July 1/2 Starke county must furnish 84 conscripts according to official figures from Washington.
1963 W. L. Morton Kingdom of Canada 481 A nasty distinction arose between the volunteers for service overseas and the conscripts for home defence.
2009 Independent 23 Feb. 37/1 Unlike those who fought in 20th-century Europe, this 21st-century force is all officer corps, no conscripts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
conscriptv.
/kənˈskrɪpt/, U.S. /kənˈskrɪpt/ Originally U.S.
transitive. To recruit by conscription; to force to enlist in the armed services. Also figurative and in extended use. Cf. conscribe v. 2c.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > enlist (soldiers) [verb (transitive)] > compel to enlist
prest1481
press1542
impress1598
imprest1645
lot1757
conscribe1806
conscript1813
draft1862
press-gang1899
to comb out1916
1813 Connecticut Courant 23 Nov. 3/5 State troops..had been conscripted under the orders of the former Captain General.
1814 Columbian Centinel 21 Dec. 2/5 The bill for drafting, or Conscripting, the Militia, has passed both Houses of Congress.
1880 Atlantic Monthly July 22 I had been conscripted and forced into the army.
1918 T. S. Eliot Let. 25 Aug. (1988) I. 241 Not being fit for active service, I am much more useful in my present occupation than in any limited service job for which I could be conscripted as a private.
1924 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 256/1 The Russians..were conscripting young Khirgese men for use on the railway.
1994 D. Schoemperlen In Lang. of Love xxxii. 138 Joanna was often conscripted into the ever-escalating campaign against dirt.
2010 P. Daniels Class Actor i. 7 Shortly after that she was conscripted and became an ATS plane-spotter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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